Adobe Photoshop CS4 can open both static and animated GIF images and allows you to edit both types. While static GIF images have no motion and look like a regular image, animated GIF images actually ...

Adobe Photoshop has always included the ability to open and edit static GIF files, and to create GIF animations, allowing you to design ads for your business or graphics for your company's website.

Animated GIFs are incredibly popular on social media and communities like Reddit. By nature, however, they aren't nearly as common as your ordinary photo simply because people are much more likely to ...

Because GIFs are all popular and stuff — or at least they were — Google has confirmed that it's rolling out special Google Images search filters for finding the moveable images, a trick that was ...

Animated GIFs have been a mainstay of the web for decades now. For a while they fell out of fashion, but their resurgence has been the making of Tumblr, Buzzfeed and their ilk. Now, in a “well if it’s ...

Microsoft is adding a long overdue function to Windows 11’s popular Snipping Tool (accessible via Win + Shift + R): The screen capture tool can now create animated GIFs directly. The new feature is ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...